Journal-box



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w. H. KENDALL.

JOURNAL BOX. 7 No. 584,740. Patented June 15, 1897.

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\VILLIAM HENRY KENDALL, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

JOURNAL BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 584,740, dated June 15,1897. Application filed November 5, 1896. Serial No. 311,124. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM HENRY KEN- DALL, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Ouyahoga and State ofOhio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inJournal-Boxes, of which the following is a specification, referencebeing had therein to the accompanying drawings.

In Letters Patent No. 568,313, granted to me September 22, 1890, I haveillustrated, described, and claimed a journal-box in which there is anoil-receptacle on each side of the bearing-block, the oil during therevolution of the journal being drawn from the receptacles by suction,whereby constant lubrication without the use of wicking or other similarmaterial is assured. In practice I have discovered that the oil isreally drawn from the one receptacle in the direction of revolution ofthe journal and in the rapid revolution of the journal is deposited inthe opposite receptacle, with the result that in time practically allthe oil is drawn from one receptacle and deposited in the other.

To overcome the above-noted objection .by providing means whereby theoil can at all times be maintained practically at a level in bothreceptacles is the object of my present invention.

The invention will first be described in conneetion with theaccompanying drawings and then pointed out in the claims.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a central longi tudinal sectional View ofthe j ournal-box provided with my improvement, the aXle-journal being inplace. Fig. 2 is a sectional view on the line m 00, Fig. 1.

The journal-box having been described in detail in the above-notedpatent, nothing more than a general description of the parts there of isdeemed necessary herein, which description is as follows:

A are the abutments, securely bolted to the base-plate B; C, theoil-receptacles; D, the bearing-block, designed to receive the axlejournal E, the bearing-block and abutments serving to hold thereceptacles in place, and F the cap-plate, adapted to fit over thejournal and also cover the oil-receptacles. The

inner wall 1 of each oil-receptacle terminates a short distance belowthe cap-plate F, leav ing a narrow recess 2, through which oil may reachthe journal. In operation the revolution of the journal will by suctiondraw the oil from the receptacle in the direction of rev-olution of thejournal and deposit the same in the opposite receptacle.

My present invention consists in establishing communication between thereceptacles C by means of a conduit, which preferably consists of a tubeG, resting in a groove 3 in the upper surface of the base-plate B, theupturned ends of the tube opening into the respective receptacles, asshown. By this construction a practically uniform level of oil ismaintained in the receptacles at all times, as will be evident.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

. 1. In a journal-box, the combination, with a base-plate and twoabutments removably secured thereto, of a bearing-block resting on thebase-plate and adapted to receive a journal, an oil-receptacle on eachside of said block and a cap-plate for the receptacles and journal, saidreceptacles being in open communication with each other and each formedwith a recess opening directly upon the journal, substantially asdescribed.

2. In a journal-box, the combination with a base-plate and two abutmentsremovably secured thereto, of a bearing-block resting on the base-plateand adapted to receive a journal, an oil-receptacle on each side of saidblock, a cap-plate for the receptacles and journal, said receptaclesbeing each formed with a recess opening directly upon the journal, and atube resting in a groove in the baseplate, the upturned ends of the tubeopening into the respective receptacles, substantially as described andfor the purposes stated.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM HENRY KENDALL. Witnesses:

TRUMAN I). PECK, J OHN A. KENDALL.

